There were a bunch of meaningless pledges made this week by nations that will do nothing to halt climate change. Climate scientists basically have no hope that nations will ever do anything here. Natu
I have no idea how many animals will be able to adapt and not go extinct due to climate change, and that includes human beings. But it is interesting that there’s already evidence of animals ada
There’s a real divide between the need for relatively loose personal bankruptcy law and much tougher corporate bankruptcy law. That’s because corporations routinely declare bankruptcy to a
One of the people who is basically right about everything is Bill McKibben. And he makes the point that while it is good that Biden put the nail in the coffin for the Keystone XL Pipeline, it means ba
The decline of the red knot is both predictable and fixable. If only the pharmaceutical industry gave a damn about it. The number of red knots visiting the Delaware Bay beaches during this spring’s
Biden made a big deal about respecting indigenous rights around pipelines and other environmental justice issues where Native communities have been subjected to repeated violence and violations of the
We have known for a long time that the lightly regulated pollution in American agriculture was deleterious to human health. Now we have some data to help us understand just how many lives this costs a
David Nye is one of our top historians of technology and he has a new book out on American landscapes and the greater political division over them. This is a rather lengthy excerpt that I found really